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| 16 October 2004 |
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| Lene Marlin tour-debut after 6 years |
| Source : Aftenposten |
Demanded to play in Tromsø.
Lene Marlin had just one demand when Morten Abel and Bertine Zetlitz wanted her with them on the tour: to play in her hometown Tromsø.
Late debut.
– It was meant for this tour-debut to happen, but I hadn’t planned for it to happen in this size and format. I was more thinking of something smaller, but the idea was so good that I couldn’t just sit and watch, Lene Marling laughs.
She’s on of Norway’s greatest pop stars, but she has not yet done a real concert with a complete band. Summer 2003 she played two songs in a tiny place called Frognerveien 6 and four songs at Oslo City. During December she’s going to play for 25 000 Norwegians – on this autumn’s super tour with Morten Abel and Bertine Zetlitz.
Still don’t have a band.
During the planning she said that they had to give a concert in Tromsø, because Marlin has never played in the town she lived in until she was 17 years old.
- Tromsø wasn’t on the tour-plan in the beginning, but it would have been really strange if we didn’t plan to give a concert there, since I’m going to play. Now I’m looking forward to it, this is pure happiness.
There are still a lot of things left to do. The three artists hasn’t yet decided how long they’re going to play or who’s going to play first etc. Marlin hasn’t yet a complete band.
- But it’s not going to be just me and the guitar.
Abel’s idea.
- Respect! One single word is enough for Bertine Zetlitz to describe Marlin’s choice for her tour-debut. Abel and Zetlitz have, compared to Marlin, a lot of experience and can be considered veterans. Zetlitz gave 40 concerts in 2003, while Abel was on a Norway-tour last winter. He’s releasing a double CD in November.
– I’ve given a lot of middle-sized concerts, but now I want to do something bigger. So I had to have someone else with me. We don’t know each other that well so this is not an idée we got on a party, but it’s based on professional evaluations. Now we’ll get the chance to the best we can - with better lights and sound and bigger stages. When the next artist enters the stage, everything has to be different, to avoid the festival feeling. I believe this could be the best tour ever. The world’s best tour, Abel promises.
- Since we’re not going to play two hours each of us, we get forced to pick out our best songs. I really want to give the people a real good show, says Zetlitz.
Writing new songs.
Abel has a double CD to sell, while Zetlitz is releasing her forth record, "Rollingskating", 1st November. Despite this, it was Lene Marlin who got most attention and questions during yesterday’s interviews.
- I’m the small one, a bit an outsider. I’m not working on a new record, but for me just to give a concert is more than enough. It passed four years between my first and my second record, so I still have three years to finish a new record.
Marlin disappeared quickly from the public eye after the release of her second record "Another Day" last summer, and she tells that she likes best to work in peace.
- I may not be shy anymore, but I don’t have the need to be in the public eye. Earlier I just had one record, but now that I have two, so now it’s more the right time to go on tour.
But she’s writing new music.
- I’ve written music since I was 14. That’s what I do, and I can’t do anything else. I’m sitting by myself with my guitar at home like I’ve always done. It’s good to work concentrated in peace without anyone disturbing you. I can write songs anywhere.
She gets support from Zetlitz.
- You can’t push on creativity, and in this profession you have to be allowed to be a bit eccentric and strange. It’s not necessarily healthy to be visible at all time, and then it feels good to have something to talk about when you’re visible.
- But after the tour, will you end up as Norway’s new super band?!
- I doubt that, Abel smiles.
Translated by Linn Johansen
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